[bewildered]

While I agree with you in principle, I think Trent Lott totally screwed this one up as well. His repeated apologies and lame excuses seemed to make it worse. If he would have just explained his comments once, as you did, then told everyone to shut the hell up it would have been better.

After reading Anne Coulter's editorial about Lott and Thurmond being converted Democrats, I began to question him as well. This is not the first time Lott has spouted off. Quoting a little from Ann's article which has other examples of Lott slip-ups...

Up until two weeks ago, conservatives were clamoring for Lott's removal precisely because of his annoying habit of saying dumb things. (Showing their inferior intellect, liberals have only recently figured that out.) Republicans should ask Lott to step down as leader, but only for all the nice things he's said about Teddy Kennedy.

While this may appear as another Republican cave-in, maybe many republicans figured it was a good time to get rid of some dead wood.

[TLBSHOW]

Ann never said to get rid of Lott for being a racist, in fact she never said get rid of him except for playing nice with democrats like Bush does. She calls Bush a liberal Clinton!